mako
@mako.dreamshrine.org
philosophy of information systems (applied)
https://aboutmako.makopool.com
Currently (at least on this account) focused on protocol and UX. Radical extensibility agenda.
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https://aboutmako.makopool.com
Currently (at least on this account) focused on protocol and UX. Radical extensibility agenda.
alt for foodposts: https://bsky.app/profile/makoconstruct-food.bsky.social
I'd suggest most of the people who want a renewal of Inkscape should contribute to Graphite instead.
October 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'd suggest most of the people who want a renewal of Inkscape should contribute to Graphite instead.
Oh, you're the author. Surprised, would you say you prefer bsky replies over substack replies?
September 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Oh, you're the author. Surprised, would you say you prefer bsky replies over substack replies?
There's a dirt simple answer to "Why would we threaten ASI’s existence if we find it so economically valuable?". It's just "We would create other AGIs, which will compete with it."
The author probably doesn't care, seeing that he's disabled replies.
The author probably doesn't care, seeing that he's disabled replies.
September 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
There's a dirt simple answer to "Why would we threaten ASI’s existence if we find it so economically valuable?". It's just "We would create other AGIs, which will compete with it."
The author probably doesn't care, seeing that he's disabled replies.
The author probably doesn't care, seeing that he's disabled replies.
[puts 50 short games onto my "when back on windows" list]
August 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
[puts 50 short games onto my "when back on windows" list]
How about running the algorithm multiple times at different resolutions. Many smaller communities exist which actually are part of a larger community as well, a system should be aware of how communities nest and overlap.
July 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
How about running the algorithm multiple times at different resolutions. Many smaller communities exist which actually are part of a larger community as well, a system should be aware of how communities nest and overlap.
Longer treatment/implementation (sort of) of the scoped override synthesis: bsky.app/profile/mako...
Mutable globals are good actually as long as you can confine mutations to scopes (but we can't just yet because it's hard to reconcile that with async)
github.com/makoConstruc...
github.com/makoConstruc...
GitHub - makoConstruct/global_scoping: describes and to some extent implements the scoped override pattern
describes and to some extent implements the scoped override pattern - makoConstruct/global_scoping
github.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Longer treatment/implementation (sort of) of the scoped override synthesis: bsky.app/profile/mako...
We probably wont need this any time soon, individual objects are rarely very large, but it's nice to know we can do it if the need arises.
June 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
We probably wont need this any time soon, individual objects are rarely very large, but it's nice to know we can do it if the need arises.
I think traders IRL aren't like that though. The mindset of a trader is like, already believing the market is wrong about the price, being good at not overupdating on the bets of others, and noticing and avoiding pathological trading patterns.
June 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I think traders IRL aren't like that though. The mindset of a trader is like, already believing the market is wrong about the price, being good at not overupdating on the bets of others, and noticing and avoiding pathological trading patterns.
A CDT trader will buy before processing their decision to buy as evidence about the decisions of other traders. They'll underestimate° their correlation with the rest of the market. Which is to say; I think conditonal markets might be a natural dutch book on CDT o_o
June 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
A CDT trader will buy before processing their decision to buy as evidence about the decisions of other traders. They'll underestimate° their correlation with the rest of the market. Which is to say; I think conditonal markets might be a natural dutch book on CDT o_o
Okay. On second read, the argument is like "prices will be distorted by the (often unrealistic at the time) assumption that the condition will be met, which could cause the condition to be met erroneously", yeah? Hmm. It could be worth clarifying this point, but I might wanna do a post on it,
June 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Okay. On second read, the argument is like "prices will be distorted by the (often unrealistic at the time) assumption that the condition will be met, which could cause the condition to be met erroneously", yeah? Hmm. It could be worth clarifying this point, but I might wanna do a post on it,
Huh, and part of the reason for that is that to commit to honouring such a market, (if the market was well formed) they would also have to commit to not changing their mind later, which would be costly.
Rigid time windows seem to be one of the real shortcomings here.
Rigid time windows seem to be one of the real shortcomings here.
June 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Huh, and part of the reason for that is that to commit to honouring such a market, (if the market was well formed) they would also have to commit to not changing their mind later, which would be costly.
Rigid time windows seem to be one of the real shortcomings here.
Rigid time windows seem to be one of the real shortcomings here.
The reason an advisory market on firing elon wouldn't be causal is there's no way the board would precommit to honouring one.
June 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The reason an advisory market on firing elon wouldn't be causal is there's no way the board would precommit to honouring one.
No, advisory markets are causal (or as causal as the bettors). Your argument against that is like, "I can add arbitrary N/A conditions that break this", when irl you obviously wouldn't be allowed to add that N/A condition to an advisory market. The N/A conditions matter and people know that.
June 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
No, advisory markets are causal (or as causal as the bettors). Your argument against that is like, "I can add arbitrary N/A conditions that break this", when irl you obviously wouldn't be allowed to add that N/A condition to an advisory market. The N/A conditions matter and people know that.
Is the homiecorps entangled in any foreign missions right now that we should know about?
June 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Is the homiecorps entangled in any foreign missions right now that we should know about?
I sometimes wonder if the trunk of the relationship between language and strategy is that language is itself a high dimensional creative modality, if an animal can generate arguments, it may learn to generate schematics.
And I concede that language in humans does seem to be doing something special.
And I concede that language in humans does seem to be doing something special.
June 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I sometimes wonder if the trunk of the relationship between language and strategy is that language is itself a high dimensional creative modality, if an animal can generate arguments, it may learn to generate schematics.
And I concede that language in humans does seem to be doing something special.
And I concede that language in humans does seem to be doing something special.
However... I don't really get the sense that nature solved this problem particularly well. Human strategic ideation mostly just seems to consist of exploring (irl and in thought) random variations and crossings of strategies we've seen before. And that gets us a long way.
June 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
However... I don't really get the sense that nature solved this problem particularly well. Human strategic ideation mostly just seems to consist of exploring (irl and in thought) random variations and crossings of strategies we've seen before. And that gets us a long way.
There's an additional aspect to it where the agent has to be able to string together complicated, original chains of actions that lead to unprecedented outcomes (strategies, technologies) that seems dependent on, but not totally solved with prediction.
June 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There's an additional aspect to it where the agent has to be able to string together complicated, original chains of actions that lead to unprecedented outcomes (strategies, technologies) that seems dependent on, but not totally solved with prediction.
I think Zak might be underestimating the extent to which children have an instinctive drive to escape excessive adult attention, or to interact with peers, so I'm not sure how many of these novel developmental hazards are really going to be hard to mitigate.
May 31, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I think Zak might be underestimating the extent to which children have an instinctive drive to escape excessive adult attention, or to interact with peers, so I'm not sure how many of these novel developmental hazards are really going to be hard to mitigate.
Slightly disappointed to hear that Dennet wasn't proposing criminalizing misrepresenting people (which causes so much tragedy), but the criminalization of the impersonation of humans is probably a more sensible proposal.
May 31, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Slightly disappointed to hear that Dennet wasn't proposing criminalizing misrepresenting people (which causes so much tragedy), but the criminalization of the impersonation of humans is probably a more sensible proposal.
This is a common problem in universities, we present students with a lot of final products, but they can't learn to think like the authors by looking at their products, they can only learn that by watching the authors thinking, and the underlying thinking often isn't discernible in the product.
May 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is a common problem in universities, we present students with a lot of final products, but they can't learn to think like the authors by looking at their products, they can only learn that by watching the authors thinking, and the underlying thinking often isn't discernible in the product.